Jeff Hangartner – Revealing the Path Less Travelled in Video Game Industry
Jeff Hangartner, the founder of the gaming start-up, Bulletproof Outlaws has been a professional developer of games over the last half a decade. Creator of Pixelation, the 1st Pixel Art Forum and also originator of the Pixel tutorials which have been published in the form of a book. Jeff has always been a pioneer of the gaming industry.
CG Today is proud to present Jeff’s exploration as he shares the whole process of creating a start-up right from day 1. With the belief that gaming development is coming back to its original “one programmer in the basement roots” idea, Bulletproof Outlaws is chronicling every step of its start-up process from strategies, to marketing, setting goals and outsourcing, successes and failures. The aim is to help other developers who have ideas but are intimidated by the whole start-up process and are not sure how to go about it.
You can visit his website Bulletproof Outlaws to know more about him or send an email to get connected.
Today I had my business class and my business coaching session. Everything going pretty smooth, so the coaching was all good. My goals per week have gotten a little more organic/random because I’m working in sync with Derek now so it’s hard to say “this task will be done by next week” because he may need something unrelated to that task and what he needs is my top priority right now. He’s still got the flu, but should be back to the world of the living soon haha In our business class we just filled out some surveys about the course itself (it was fantastic!) and did some self-analysis stuff. Back at the start of the course (Sept 20, 2010) we filled out sheets describing on scales of 1 – 5, how we’re doing in different categories of our life…relationships (do we have a large support network in our friends and families, do we have business connections, etc.), personal skills (am I just good at game dev stuff? what about leadership, or organizational skills, etc.), internal stuff (confidence, positive self-talk, I’ve always had this haha), financial assets (access to money, business bank account, etc.), and physical assets (tools/computers, office space, roof over your head at home, etc.). We filled it out on day 1, but this time we re-filled it out for day 1, looking back at ourselves then and filling in the chart based on how, now that we have a little more perspective/experience, where do we think we were ACTUALLY at. I imagine everyone’s charts lowered a notch or two compared to where we thought we were at the start, just because now we’ve seen more of our potential (whether it’s now we’ve learned to network and realized we were actually fairly isolated at the start, or manage projects when we thought we had no organizational skills at all, or handle finances when we thought we had no money but in reality we just had bad spending habits, etc.).
Interesting stuff, I’d like for everyone in the course to meet up again in September and fill the things out again to see where we’re all at. It’s cool to see such big changes in people’s personalities and perception in such a short amount of time.
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Bulletproof Outlaws Diary
- I’m back, and with a new project in production!
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE IV – Psychology
- 50% Off “Back-To-School-Boredom” Sale for Elusive Ninja!
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE III – Game Related & Maintenance
- Quick break from Marketing Articles to make my Touch Arcade banners!
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE II – Traditional Advertising
- Indie Game Marketing: ARTICLE I – Social Marketing
- The trials & tribulations of marketing as an indie gamedev!
- Back to kickin’ ass & making games!
- Days 116 to 117 – Elusive Ninja officially launched! Final update before E3!
- Day 115 – Elusive Ninja approved! Plus E3 promotional stuff!
- Day 114 – Elusive Ninja: The Shadowy Thief – official trailer!
- Days 109 to 113 – Elusive Ninja for the iPhone submitted to Apple!
- Days 106 to 108 – So close to submitting to Apple!
- Game1: Days 104 to 105 – Using basic human psychology to balance videogame difficulty curves!
- Game1, Day 103 – Stress management! I never expected to write this haha
- Game1, Days 100 to 102 – Big news! Elusive Ninja is in its final stages!
- Game1, Day 99 – All art/animations complete!
- Game1, Day 98 – Ahhh powers of two…you’re still around, eh?
- Game1, Day 97 – Just ’cause it’s bigger doesn’t mean it’s more powerful!
- Game1, Day 96 – Testing, testing, one two three!
- Game1, Day 95 – iPad art complete! Two versions down, one to go!
- Game1, Day 94 – My art is fat, time to put it on a .PNG reduction diet!
- Game1, Day 93 – Choppin’ and loadin’…sounds like the title of a bad NES game haha
- Game1, Days 72 – 92 – MegaUpdate Part 2, Music and SFX
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